PWC predicts that in finance, tailored planning as well as fraud discovery will be among the driving reasons for implementing artificial intelligence (AI).

International audit and advisory firm PWC collaborated with German industry research institute Fraunhofer and Forbes Magazine to summarise how artificial intelligence can be expected to enter the financial landscape.

Process automation – both of back-office functions and of customer-oriented processes.

Adds 16 trillion dollars

According to the report, the global economic impact of AI in the period to 2030 will be nearly $16.000 billion – including a boost to China’s economy by 26 percent of GDP. Northern Europe can expect AI to have a 10 percent GDP impact by then, corresponding to $1.800 billion.